* Brigit said [long ago]:
- I think you may be relying on Lithium too much. Could that be? I see Australia exports quite a few tons, but it is not very abundant in earth's crust. Likewise with Boron, which you tend to use a lot. Oxygen is the ozone, in the atmosphere, in the water, and in most of the rocks. That's four convenient locations for all your transmutation needs!
- Perhaps it is just not heavy enough? I was looking at the difference in atomic numbers between rows 5 and 6 (most of them) and the difference is 32-- 4 Oxygens have been added.
* The list of transmutations involving oxygen that I gave were only those that were possible. It came from my other list on the transmutation thread, which showed all of the mathematically possible transmutations up to Rubidium. I made the new list to see if oxygen could account for much of the elements that are found up to Rubidium. And it can. Now don't complain that Li, Be, B, F etc are uncommon elements. They work with oxygen. That's what I was testing for.
* Now here's a list of Abundance of Elements in Earth’s Crust up to iron
Z –Times Expected -- Element -- Ppb.
1 -- <2.30E+02 -- H - Hydrogen -- 0.0015
2 -- <1.08E+07 -- He - Helium -- 0.000000008
3 -- <2.50E+03 -- Li - Lithium -- 0.00002
4 -- <1.48E+04 -- Be - Beryllium -- 0.0000026
5 -- <3.21E+03 -- B - Boron -- 0.00001
6 -- <6.00E+01 -- C - Carbon -- 0.00048
7 -- <9.91E+02 -- N - Nitrogen -- 0.000025
8 -- 21.7…….. -- O - Oxygen -- 0.47
9 -- <1.90E+01 -- F - Fluorine -- 0.00095
10 -- <2.46E+08 -- Ne - Neon -- 7E-11
11 -- 1.52…….. -- Na - Sodium -- 0.023
12 -- 161…….. -- Mg - Magnesium -- 0.023
13 -- 6.38…….. -- Al - Aluminum -- 0.082
14 -- 22.7…….. -- Si - Silicon -- 0.28
15 -- <1.10E+01 -- P - Phosphorus -- 0.001
16 -- <4.20E+01 -- S - Sulfur -- 0.00026
17 -- <7.50E+01 -- Cl - Chlorine -- 0.00013
18 -- <7.24E+03 -- Ar - Argon -- 0.0000012
19 -- 2.37…….. -- K - Potassium -- 0.021
20 -- 4.74…….. -- Ca - Calcium -- 0.041
21 -- <4.82E+02 -- Sc - Scandium -- 0.000016
22 -- <1.00E+00 -- Ti - Titanium -- 0.0056
23 -- <4.30E+01 -- V - Vanadium -- 0.00016
24 -- <6.70E+01 -- Cr - Chromium -- 0.0001
25 -- <7.00E+00 -- Mn - Manganese -- 0.00095
26 -- 6.6…….. -- Fe - Iron -- 0.041
27 -- <2.94E+02 -- Co - Cobalt -- 0.00002
28 -- <7.40E+01 -- Ni - Nickel -- 0.00008
29 -- <1.09E+02 -- Cu - Copper -- 0.00005
30 -- <7.10E+01 -- Zn - Zinc -- 0.000075
* Only Oxygen, Sodium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Silicon, Potassium, Calcium & Iron seem to be more abundant than expected.
* Do you agree it's reasonable that elements were built up from Hydrogen? I suggested that Helium apparently came from 4 Hydrogens, in which 2 collapsed into neutrons. I suggested that Oxygen was built up from 4 Heliums. If we find out how 3Li7, 4Be9, 5B11 and 9Fl19 formed, then we have all the elements up to Bromine. The first 9 elements' numbers are: 1H1, 2He4, 3Li7, 4Be9, 5B11, 6C12, 7N14, 8O16 and 9Fl19. If we look at just the numbers, they're 1:1, 2:4, 3:7, 4:9, 5:11, 6:12, 7:14, 8:16, 9:19.
1:1+1:1+0:1+0:1=2:4 or 1:1+1:1+2n=2:4 [0:1 is a neutron].
1:1+2:4+2n=3:7
2:4+2:4+1n=4:9
1:1+2:4+2:4+2n=5:11
2:4+2:4+2:4=6:12
1:1+2:4+2:4+2:4+1n=7:14
2:4+2:4+2:4+2:4=8:16
1:1+2:4+2:4+2:4+2:4+1n=9:19.
* Hydrogen atoms might convert into the needed neutrons.
* All the rest up to Bromine can be produced by transmutation from those elements plus Oxygen.
Na_11:23 = O+Li
Al_13:27 = O+B
Si_14:28 = O+C
S__16:32 = O+O
Cl_17:35 = O+F
Ar_18:40 = Co-F, Cr-C, V-B
K__19:39 = O+Na
Ca_20:40 = O+Mg
Sc_21:45 = Na+2B
T__22:48 = Cl+B
V__23:51 = Cl+2Li
Cr_24:52 = V+H, Sc+Li, T+He
Mn_25:55 = Cl+2Be, T+Li, V+He
Fe_26:56 = Sc+B, Si+4Li, Cl+3Li, Cr+He
Fe'26:54 = 2Si-2H
Co_27:59 = T+B, Cr+Li, Sc+2Li, Mn+H3
Ni_28:58 = Ca+2Be
Ni'28:62 = Mn+Li
Cu_29:63 = V+C, Sc+2Be, Fe+Li, Co+He
Cu'29:65 = V+2Li
Zn_30:64 = Cr+C
Zn'30:66 = T+2Be, Mn+B, Cu+H, Co+Li, Cr+2Li, Ni+He
Ga_31:69 = V+2Be, Mn+2Li, Cu+He
Ge_32:72 = Cu+Li, V+3Li
Br_35:79 = Ge+Li, Cu+2Li
* So remember that this is about trying to determine how the elements originally built up, instead of determining how fossils transmuted. It's going a step or more back before there were creatures that could fossilize.
* Also, note that less common elements, like Lithium etc, may be more stable when they combine with other elements via transmutation to form something else. So, after Lithium is formed it will tend to combine with something, rather than remain Lithium. That seems to be true of most of the elements.